Outstanding value!

eFilm wrote:

Thanks for the mini-review. Sounds like an interesting lens, especially when considering the price. It probably is one of the lenses that make the whole NX system more attractive to newcomers.

Although the manual focusing sounds like a big bummer.

I wonder if all the NX primes behave the same way? I also wonder if the manual focus ring is at least linear, 1:1 type, rather than dynamic, like in some Sony lenses? Both types are almost useless in video use, but the dynamic type is both useless and annoying.

It is the same for the 30mm f2 that I own. But I don't consider it a deal-breaker, because as you can witness, it didn't prevent me from buying the 45mm.

I do not know what you mean by line an versus dynamic - but even if I make the assumption that dynamic would be like on a logarithmic scale, I couldn't answer that, because nothing is telling me what the distance increments are, when I turn the ring. If my assumption is wrong, and it were just speed-sensitive, I'm not sure... I don't think so.

Unless you're trying to photograph bugs on a branch, where you have to go from focus very afar to closest - but how often do you do that?  I would be more concerned how the 60mm macro lens performs in such situations (which I don't own, thus can't comment).

Manual focus fulfills it's purpose quite adequately, when you want to make quick, minute adjustments to the distance chosen by AF when in AF mode, where the camera's on-screen tools, namely the 5X/7X on-screen enlargement, or the sharpness-peak bar, are of help (I think that is model-dependent though, as some may offer focus-peaking).